Not as good as it sounds - a robotic scarecrow that isn't really a proper scarecrow, and probably doesn't even scare crows. So far as 21st-century bird alarming goes, my money's on Mike Barfield's "Headline News: Cawing Linked To Cancer" cartoon.
[via Peace Dividend]

Disappointing return of the Big Train last night. Maybe I'm remembering the last
series as being better than it was simply for having Heap and Eldon in it,
but it all seemed rather back-of-fag-packet Jam Lite, with barely any
meaning to anything. Tsk.

07.01.02

"It's a flaw or something, a mutation, like being albino, but there's an extra thing in my eyes that lets me see another colour, and in this colour I see the people, the people who make coincidences happen."

Raven makes the febrile observation that all acronyms containing the letter 'A' become hilarious if that letter is taken to
represent 'ass'. The Acronym Liar has been
developed to aid further research.